I have an HP MediaSmart server, and I like it because I can group a bunch of drives together. However I am a little confused as to what WHS Vail really offers me. You see, I also have an MCE PC which I record ~0-1 shows a day, and use an XBOX
360 extender with NetFlix for most of my media watching. I use my WHS basically to just store my photos and videos, and making my home network available remotely over the internet. I see little gain for WHS... why wouldn't I just put some bigger
drives into my MCE PC and trash my WHS? I can't even stream my WHS videos to my XBOX 360 because they are MTS files (which perhaps is the most common HD video format from cameras), however I can play them just fine in MCE.
I just wish I could put MCE into WHS... anyway I think I plan on building a bigger Windows 7 MCE to be both my media server and storage device since WHS doesn't deliver. I can solve server backup some other way (raid, mirroring or something), continue
to use my home router and dyn dns, and still can use Remote Desktop into it.
The only feature in Vail which looks really interesting to me is the WP7 app. Is the WP7 app available in the RC? If so has anybody tested it? Does anybody know if it works on Windows 7? Something tells me other apps will be available
on WP7 which do just this if it is not already available.